Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of
pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion
challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who
are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be
weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with
the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being
human.
Henri N. J. Nouwen
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